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| Yesterday |
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
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Editor: Chris Redmond credmond@uwaterloo.ca |
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Congratulated:
Actuarial science student Jit Seng Chen receives a certificate from
Bruce Mitchell, UW's associate provost (academic and student affairs),
honouring him as Co-op Student of the Year from the math faculty. Winners
from the other five faculties were also recognized yesterday at a ceremony
in the Tatham Centre lobby. Chen is also joint winner of the national
Student of the Year award from
the Canadian Association
for Co-operative Education.
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There were a total of 1,546.0 positions in October 2001, and 1,706.9 positions in October 2005, the three-page summary shows. (Tenths of a position represent the working hours of part-time staff.) The figures don't include staff whose salaries are paid from research funds, or from the budgets of UW-run "ancillary" businesses such as food services and the bookstore. They do include positions that weren't filled at the time the data was collected.
As always, the single biggest department is plant operations, which is listed as having 301.5 hourly-paid staff and another 46.0 salaried staff. (That total of 347.5 is up from 323 four years ago.) Second is the library (133.0 positions) and third is information systems and technology (119.0).
Some departments have seen increases over the four-year period, while others are down -- including the library, which had 140.0 positions in 2001, and distance and continuing education, down from 34.0 four years ago to 31.0 this year.
But increases are notable across the spreadsheet. The total in engineering is up by 35 positions, from 122.2 to 157.2, thanks to sizeable jumps in architecture, electrical and computer engineering and (partly because of the PDEng program) the dean's office. Similarly, the total in math is up from 77.0 positions in 2001 to 99.3 in 2005, with growth concentrated in computer science.
Total staff numbers in the other faculties: 32.2 in applied health sciences, 84.3 in arts, 32.6 in environmental studies and 120.2 in science.
In non-academic areas, major growth is noticeable in development and alumni affairs (up from 48.0 positions to 58.7), the registrar's office (from 51.4 to 75.1) and health services (from 12.3 positions to 18.3), as well as plant ops.
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On April 17, acting students from Germany's Theaterakademie
Vorpommern will arrive in Toronto to perform Goldoni's A Servant
of Two Masters ("Der Diener Zweier Herrn") (right).
After two performances at the University of
Toronto's Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse -- and a formal reception
at the German consulate -- they will move their production to
UW's Theatre of the Arts (Modern Languages building) for
productions on Saturday, April 22, and Sunday, April 23.
Once the German troupe's performances have wrapped up, students from the drama departments at U of T and UW will make their way to Zinnowitz, a "sleepy resort town on the Baltic Sea" in the former East Germany. There, the UW cast will twice perform "Our Country's Good" for German audiences, working in a theatre whose name translates to English as the "Tin Box." ("It looks like one, too," noted a drama faculty member.)
Then the Waterloo cast will become crew as the exchange moves to Anklam, Germany. There, UW students will set up and run the technical aspects of the theatre while U of T students performs two sets of their play, "The Orphan Muses".
The exchange has received support from the Dean of Arts, the Federation of Students and various UW departments. Still, the drama students are passionately fundraising to cover the balance of their costs, working through a variety of creative fundraising efforts. Last Saturday, they held a pay-what-you-can matinee of "Our Country's Good" with the proceeds going towards the exchange. Plans to approach local theatres and K-W's many German clubs are also in the works.
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Yume Peace Project: help fold 1,000 paper cranes, sponsored by
Konnichiwa Japan Club, continues today, Student Life Centre.
Teaching workshop: 'Motivation and Enthusiasm' today or Friday, 12 noon, Math and Computer room 5158, details and registration online. UW Shop, South Campus Hall, grand reopening celebrations, with prizes; 30-second shopping spree, 12:30. Student recital: Tammie Yeh, Shannon Baker and Lisa Bosman (flute), Jessica Hill (voice), Sarah Heyer (piano), Alex McCarthy (voice), Michaelle Kamler (flute), Julia Jackein (new composition), 12:30, Conrad Grebel University College chapel. Engineering faculty council 3 p.m., CEIT room 3142. Sustainable Career Night with speakers who graduated from science, computer science, applied health sciences, 7:00, Environmental Studies I courtyard, sponsored by UW Sustainability Project. Centre for International Governance Innovation presents Stephen Clarkson, political economy, University of Toronto, "Does North America Exist?" 7 p.m., 57 Erb Street West, free tickets e-mail rsvp@cigionline.org. 'Clinic of Hope': Campaign to support HIV/AIDS victims in Lesotho, talk by Anne-Marie Zajdlik, 7 p.m., Wilfrid Laurier University Bricker Academic Building room 102. Environmental Commissioner of Ontario Gordon Miller speaks Wednesday 10 a.m., WLU Bricker Academic Building room 102. Fine arts study abroad: studio or art history course in England and Scotland, May 2007, information session Wednesday 12 noon, East Campus Hall room 1219, or e-mail jmcoutu@uwaterloo.ca. Credit Union Mortgages: information session Wednesday 12:15, Davis Centre room 1302, sponsored by Education Credit Union. Smarter Health seminar: Ernie Wallace, Smart Systems for Health, "The Ontario Laboratories Information System", Wednesday 3:00, Davis Centre room 1302. Café-rencontre du département d'études françaises: David Porreca, départmenet des études classiques, "Hermès Trismégiste, la métamorphose d'un sage paîen au Moyen Age," mercredi 15h30, Modern Languages salle 246. 'God and Sex': talk by Peter Erb, Wilfrid Laurier University, sponsored by Compass Catholic Fellowship and other groups, Wednesday 4 p.m., Student Life Centre multipurpose room. Cultural Caravan with cultural performances, displays and food, Thursday 3 to 8 p.m., Student Life Centre great hall. Jewish studies lecture: Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, "Can All Religions Be True?" Thursday 7:30 p.m., Conrad Grebel University College great hall. St. Jerome's University presents theologian Douglas John Hall, founding principal of St. Paul's United College now at McGill University, "Many Churches, Many Faiths, One Planet," Friday 7:30 p.m., Siegfried Hall. |
"You've probably heard of UW Innovate! by now," writes one of the organizers of that event, which is scheduled for Wednesday evening. Rajat Suri, a chemical engineering student, says he's expecting "an extremely significant event . . . we'd really like people outside Engineering to appreciate our thrust towards innovation even in the undergrad curriculum." Suri tells more: "Not to be confused with UW Innovate Inc, 'UW Innovate!' is an event geared towards improving the experience and quality of the Fourth Year Design Project that is a requirement for all engineering grads here at UW. For a lot of engineering students, the design project is our first major open-ended problem-solving experience. What often happens is that students pick the easiest and most convenient project at the last moment, which severely reduces the satisfaction and achievement derived from the project. UW Innovate! aims to improve things by bringing students from all departments together to listen informative speakers, meet with experienced professors and industrial representatives, learn about the opportunities in various research areas and most of all forge relationships with other students with similar interests but complementary skill sets. It is targeted at junior engineering students (from 1st to 3rd year). The rest of the campus is also welcome to come and see what problems engineers are considering for the project." UW Innovate! is organized by the student Forum for Independent Thought, and will run from 5 to 8 tomorrow night in the Festival Room, South Campus Hall. Dinner is provided.
This week UW becomes one of the hundreds of colleges and universities worldwide to stage a production of "The Vagina Monologues". Writes English student Stephanie Radcliffe: "The show is entirely student-run and celebrates V-Day, an annual event to raise money and awareness to stop violence against women and girls. With productions from Mexico to Malaysia, UW students proudly join an international contingent of students striving to fight violence against women. Since 1998, benefit productions of The Vagina Monologues have raised over $25 million for charities worldwide. All money raised from UW's production will go towards Mary's Place, a YMCA Kitchener-Waterloo 60-bed shelter for homeless women and their children, and the V-Day charity itself. Originally performed by Eve Ensler, 'The Vagina Monologues' is an award-winning play celebrating female sexuality with intelligence, wit, and humour. Her experiences performing the play inspired her to establish the V-Day charity." The play has three different venues: Wednesday night in the multipurpose room of the Student Life Centre, Thursday in the Bombshelter pub, Friday in Studio 180 in the Humanities building. Showtime is 7:30 each night; tickets are $10 (students $8) at the SLC turnkey desk or at the door.
Coming to campus Wednesday night, sponsored by the "One Waterloo" diversity project, is Minnijean Brown Trickey, who in September 1957 was one of a group of African-American teenagers known as the "Little Rock Nine." Under the gaze of 1,200 armed soldiers and a worldwide audience, Trickey faced down an angry mob and helped to desegregate Central High. This seminal event in American history was the beginning of her long career as a crusader for civil rights. Under the Clinton administration, she served for a time as deputy assistant Secretary of the Department of the Interior responsible for diversity. Currently, she lives in Arkansas, and is continuing her work for civil rights and social equality. Drawing on her experiences, Minnijean Brown Trickey provides audiences with an exploration of social change, diversity, and the battle against discrimination and racism. "Realistic, but at the same time hopeful," we're told, "she helps her listeners to understand both how far we have come from that fateful autumn in Little Rock, and how far we have still to go, in the battle for freedom and equality in both Canada and the United States." She'll speak at 8:00 tomorrow night in the Humanities Theatre, introduced by history professor Andrew Hunt; admission is free.
And . . . this term Orchestra@UWaterloo, the UW orchestra made up of students, staff, faculty and alumni, held a Concerto Competition, sponsored by computer science professor David Taylor. The winner of the competition was a first-year engineering student, Alan Li. He will play Chopin's first piano concerto with the orchestra at their end-of-term concert, "Crossing Borders", on Thursday at 8:00 in the Humanities Theatre. Also on the program: Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet" and a piece by local composer Boyd McDonald. Tickets are free but must be reserved through the box office at 888-4908. Donations are welcome at the door.
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